It’s time once again to announce our SIS College Football Preseason All-AAC Team. We used our all-encompassing player value stat, Total Points, along with other metrics and our scouting work as leading references in putting together our selections.

A brief explanation of Total Points:

Total Points takes nearly everything that SIS measures about a play and uses it to evaluate each player on a scale that allows you to compare them more easily. It’s always useful to be able to understand the different ways in which players can be valuable. Does he break a lot of tackles? Does he get a lot of yards after the catch? Does he make the best out of a poor offensive line? Does he get more pressures than expected? Does he break up a lot of passes? Total Points offers the opportunity to take all of those elements and get a quick picture of how well a player is performing overall.

You can learn more about Total Points and the statistics referenced within this piece here.

Here are our selections:

1st Team Offense 

Position Name School
QB Brendon Lewis Memphis
RB Eli Heidenreich Navy
RB Noah Short Army
WR Easton Messer Florida Atlantic
WR Anthony Smith East Carolina
TE Houston Thomas UTSA
T Chris Adams Memphis
T Jimarion McCrimon East Carolina
G Paolo Gennarelli Army
G Ben Purvis Navy
C Brady Small Army

 

1st Team Defense

Position Name School
DT Landon Robinson Navy
DT Blake Boenisch Rice
EDGE Kameron Hamilton Tulane
EDGE Mo Westmoreland Tulane
LB Sam Brumfield Memphis
LB Chavez Brown South Florida
CB David Fisher North Texas
CB Elijah Green Tulsa
S Bailey Despanie Tulane
S Josh Baka UAB
S Casey Larkin Army

 

1st Team Specialists

Position Name School
K Jonah Delange UAB
P Dante Atton Temple
Returner Quinton Jackson Rice

Army offensive linemen Paolo Gennarelli and Brady Small made our Preseason All-American 1st team. Despite not being a traditional power conference, there are some major playmakers in the American Conference as Brendon Lewis, Eli Heidenreich, and Landon Robinson all were Top-20 in the FBS at their respective positions in Total Points last season.

Jimarion McCrimon, Blake Boenisch, and Chavez Brown are in line for bigger roles this season after finishing Top-25 in Total Points Above Average Per Snap last season at their respective positions.

The majority of players from the 2024 All-AAC team have either graduated or transferred, and there is plenty of room for players to earn their spot on our postseason team. The balance of the conference is evident with 6 different schools represented on the offensive side and 9 different schools represented on the defensive side.